The Future Is Decided

Now this is interesting:

- On left, NYT front page day before 2018 mid-terms under Trump. Headline—properly—is about uncertainty.
As it happened, Dems picked up 41 seats in House.

- On right, NYT front page today. Lead story and "analysis" are about doom for Dems.

C'mon guys. pic.twitter.com/iOVYPKt1yC

— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) November 7, 2022

And if it isn’t they’ll just change the headlines and you’ll forget you ever saw this.*

Or this:

By mid-afternoon today, several advisers said they believed Trump had been talked out of doing so but the idea isn’t put to bed completely. https://t.co/jd0XVPKsrY

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 7, 2022

See?

Announcing…something. Who knows what! But people will be very very happy, okay? https://t.co/PeaLyHlhqT

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 8, 2022

Gone already!

You see what’s happening here, right https://t.co/oucV6b0wPO

— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) November 8, 2022

No reason not to move that back to Tuesday morning. Or the day before. After all, the pundits agree the polls are “tightening” and trending toward the GOP. Why not just end it there? Seems fair; and far less suspicious.

(Christina Bobb is a lawyer. I want to see her make that argument (“after midnight is too late”) in any court in the land. And please don’t tell me saying this on RSBN is a sure sign the Republic is dead and we should pack it in now. I don’t even care if MTG and Matt Gaetz tattoo it on their butts. Saying it doesn’t make it so; or even scary. Mostly it says these people shouldn’t be in possession of anything sharper than a rubber ball.)

Which is a good opportunity to remind everyone that exit polls aren't designed to gauge turnout, and their results are most useful once they've been weighted to actual turnout, which will take weeks.

— Tom Bonier (@tbonier) November 7, 2022

Weeks later! Even the polls are "suspicious”! The only solution is to end all voting and declare Republicans the majority and ruling party in perpetuity. Let’s end all this uncertainty and suspicions activity!

(Yes, you’ll hear all about “exit polls” tomorrow. No, it won’t be reported correctly. No, journalists do not consider this either unethical or misleading. Go figure.)

*Morning Joe discussed enthusiasm among Dem voters being high, but GOP voters being equally enthusiastic. But the Democrats are the majority party by voters, so shouldn’t that be an advantage? GOP suppression efforts certainly seem to be based on that assumption.